9-13. They were ranked in the following order: Ezer, Obadiah, Eliab, Mishmannah, Jeremiah, Attai, Eliel, Johanan, Elzabad, Jeremiah, and Machbannai.
14. Some of these men from the tribe of Gad were senior officers in command of a thousand men, and others were junior officers in command of a hundred.
15. In the first month of one year, the time when the River Jordan overflowed its banks, they crossed the river, scattering the people who lived in the valleys both east and west of the river.
16. Once a group of men from the tribes of Benjamin and Judah went out to the fort where David was.
17. David went to meet them and said, “If you are coming as friends to help me, you are welcome here. Join us! But if you intend to betray me to my enemies, even though I have not tried to hurt you, the God of our ancestors will know it and punish you.”
18. God's Spirit took control of one of them, Amasai, who later became the commander of “The Thirty”, and he called out,“David son of Jesse, we are yours!Success to you and those who help you!God is on your side.”David welcomed them and made them officers in his army.
19. Some soldiers from the tribe of Manasseh went over to David's side when he was marching out with the Philistines to fight King Saul. Actually he did not help the Philistines, for their kings were afraid that he would betray them to his former master Saul, so they sent him back to Ziklag.